Creating bar charts

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Released

8/8/2005

Keynote 2 Essential Training with Sean Colins will help you understand how Apple's renowned presentation software really works. Sean walks you through all the tools of the program, goes deeply into custom theme creation, and demonstrates how to integrate with other Apple and third-party tools. You are given Web resources for further research, and practice files are included so you can follow along to create a beautiful custom Keynote theme that can be used over and over again. If you thought it was easy to build presentations using what Apple provides out of the box, you'll be thrilled to see how easy it is to build a unique look, using Keynote.

Topics include:

The process of building a presentation
Understanding custom themes
Editing master slides
Understanding transitions
Real-time text animations
Adding graphics and preserving transparency
The Mask tool
Adding just about anything to a slide
Using object builds for layout elements
Combining transitions and builds
Representing data using charts
and tables
Presentation mode